Writing Prompt #317: False Representation

Someone claims to be representing someone else, but your character divines that it's a lie. How?

Writing Prompt #316: Love in Action

God loved this world this way: he gave his only son, so whoever puts their trust in him won't be destroyed, but instead will live forever.

So how does your character "love"? How does your character translate a value, "you're important," into action?

Gauntlet is thrown.

Writing Prompt #315: Self-Perspective

Someone sees themself from someone else's perspective.

Hearing a story narrated? Watching behind-the-scenes footage? Photographs of you getting your mail? Have fun.

Writing Prompt #314: Stranger Danger Reversed!

Someone is encouraged by a stranger.

Writing Prompt #313: Motivators

Someone has to do something unpleasant. They use something strange to keep themselves on task.

Writing Prompt #312: Forgotten

Someone has been forgotten. How do they deal with that?

Writing Prompt #311: Deadlines

Someone's on a deadline. They're behind schedule. The consequences are extreme.

Force them to make tough choices.

Writing Prompt #310: Positive Response

Someone embraces the bright side of something awful.

Writing Prompt #309: Gift Gone Wrong

Someone gives a gift which goes horribly wrong.

Oh, look, you didn't even have to read the blog post. That was in the title.

I'm sure both readers of this blog will appreciate all the time I just saved them.

Writing Prompt #308: Negotiations

Someone gives something to get something.

Too easy for you?

They have to make these negotiations while not in their right mind.

Writing Prompt #307: Unsaid

There's something important that someone isn't saying.





Sometimes you can't say what you want to. Sometimes the most important piece of information you have is the one you can't even hint at.

So raise a problem, heat up the conflict, and resolve it...without saying that thing.

Writing Prompt #306: Promise Refused

Someone refuses to make a promise.

Writing Prompt #305: Dual Communication

Someone is trying to have two conversations at the same time.

Writing Prompt #304: Shadows to Light

Write a character with a problem you had in the distant past.

Last year is not the distant past. Go distant.

Writing Prompt #303: Resemblance

A character treats someone unfairly because the person reminds them of someone else.

Writing Prompt #302: Pulchritude

Someone appreciates someone else from an aesthetic point of view.

Writing Prompt #301: Elderly Advice

Someone takes the time to listen to an old person.

Writing Prompt #300: Arguing Well

How do you do a good job of arguing? I'm not asking how you do a good job of winning an argument. How do you argue well? How do you respect the other person? How do you listen? How do you show them that you care even while you disagree? And when you have to, how do you give in because they're more important?

Write a scene where someone wins over a hard opponent because they argue well.

Writing Prompt #299: Open Judgements and Unshaking Opinions

Your character gives his opinion of someone to their face.

Writing Prompt #298: Fish out of Water

Put your character in the opposite of his normal situation.

The extrovert is watching from the fringe of the crowd. The introvert is the center of attention. The guy who orders around giant men is being controlled by toddler females.

I hope you have fun. :)

Writing Prompt #297: Recognition Unappreciated

Someone receives recognition for a job well done, and isn't happy about it.

Writing Prompt #296: Actions Explained

Someone explains an abnormality in their actions.

Why are you sitting so far away from the boy?

Why do she flinch at birdsong?

Why does he laugh every time he sees a Volvo?

Explain.

Writing Prompt #295: Put on the Spot

Someone has to give an on-the-spot performance.

Are they called on to speak? To sing? To perform some feat of physical strength?

When you have no warning, how do you deal?

Writing Prompt #294: Opening Jars for Superman

Someone strong needs help.

Writing Prompt #293: Competence Makes for a Story

A character explains why he's good at something.

Writing Prompt #292: Reversing Expectations

Something potentially terrible turns out well.

Your deranged uncle's match-making efforts? The worst church Easter production ever?  Find something doomed and salvage it with savage brilliance.

Writing Prompt #291: Goodbye Perfected

We spend so much of our lives without a chance to say goodbye.

That person I sat next to in class, the semester ends and I never get to tell her I'm glad it was her in that seat.

The teacher who changed my life leaves it without a word, without a warning that today is the last time I get to listen.

A storm hits the house and there is no chance to sit by my bed one more time.

BUT.

Sometimes, we have that chance. Sometimes we get to live life to the hilt and lunge out on limbs to look crazy and tell people that they changed our lives, that losing them hurts, and that it's worth it to have known them.

Write about someone who has that chance and takes it.

Forget socially acceptable. Forget normal. Say goodbye.

Writing Prompt #290: More Fun with Role-Reversal

Think of a conversation that parents and children usually have, and reverse the roles.

The mom is on the side of the plunging neckline. The dad is worried about disappointing the boy. The grandchild is the one having a senior moment. The older sibling wants to hang out, and the little one is busy.

Can you find something sweet, something real, something genuine in a moment of reversal?

Writing Prompt #289: Out of Your Hands

Someone has a decision made for them.

Writing Prompt #288: A Choice of Direction (Decisions, Decisions)

Someone chooses the direction for the rest of their life.

Are they choosing a profession? An education? Or is it one of those small, almost invisible watershed moments where you choose the person you're gonna be?

Happy choosing.